On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 07:31 +0100, Eric Lemoine wrote:
> It doesn't help -- boot still stops after the five "openpic:" lines,
> at switch-to-FB time it seems.
>
Try something like that patch and pass "printkbtext" to the kernel command line,
it will give you more debug output hopefully.
Index: linux-work/kernel/printk.c
===================================================================
--- linux-work.orig/kernel/printk.c 2004-10-23 11:48:37.000000000 +1000
+++ linux-work/kernel/printk.c 2004-11-02 17:26:31.209278368 +1100
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
+extern int printkbtext;
+
#define __LOG_BUF_LEN (1 << CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT)
/* printk's without a loglevel use this.. */
@@ -537,6 +539,8 @@
/* Emit the output into the temporary buffer */
printed_len = vscnprintf(printk_buf, sizeof(printk_buf), fmt, args);
+ if (printkbtext)
+ btext_drawstring(printk_buf);
/*
* Copy the output into log_buf. If the caller didn't provide
Index: linux-work/arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c
===================================================================
--- linux-work.orig/arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c 2004-09-24 14:32:54.000000000
+1000
+++ linux-work/arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c 2004-11-02 17:27:28.333594152 +1100
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@
#endif
struct machdep_calls ppc_md;
+int printkbtext;
/*
* These are used in binfmt_elf.c to put aux entries on the stack
@@ -699,6 +700,9 @@
#endif /* CONFIG_XMON */
if ( ppc_md.progress ) ppc_md.progress("setup_arch: enter", 0x3eab);
+ if (strstr(cmd_line, "printkbtext"))
+ printkbtext = 1;
+
#if defined(CONFIG_KGDB)
if (ppc_md.kgdb_map_scc)
ppc_md.kgdb_map_scc();
